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John
Murton
- leader of one of the first Baptist churches of England
"The
rule of faith is the doctrine of the Holy Ghost contained
in the sacred Scriptures, and not any church, council, prince,
or potentate, nor any mortal man whatsoever."
Benjamin
Keach - Early Baptist dissenter in England
circa 1640.
"The
Bible evidences itself to be God’s Word by the heavenliness
of its doctrines, the unity of its parts, its power to convert
sinners and edify saints; but the Spirit of God only, bearing
witness by and with the Scriptures in our hearts is able
to persuade us that the Bible is the Word of God."
(Keach’s
Catechism, Question 5)
John
Gill - famous Baptist pastor in London
and author of The Body of Divinity.
"Let
us therefore bless God that we have a better rule and guide
to go by; ‘a more sure word of prophecy to take heed
unto.’ Let us have constant recourse unto it, as the
standard of faith and practice." (Body of Divinity,
p. 25)
Andrew
Fuller - Baptist pastor, author of The
Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, and close friend of William
Carrey.
"If
the Scriptures profess to be Divinely inspired, we must
receive them as such, of if we would be consistent, disown
the writers as impostors … As the sacred writers considered
themselves as Divinely inspired, so they represented their
… writings as the infallible test of Divine truth."
(Works, Vol. 2, p. 196)
Adonirum
Judson - Baptist missionary to Burma (circa
1800’s)
"The
Word of God is the golden lamp hung out of heaven, to enlighten
the nations that sit in darkness … The Bible, in the
original tongues, comprises all the revelation now extant
which God has given to this world … This perfect book
is the sacred deposit in the hands of the church …
Woe be to him that attempts to obscure the light of the
lamp of heaven."
Francis
Wayland - President of Brown University (circa
1850’s)
Preaching
"proceeds upon the supposition that the Bible is the
Word of the living God … This is the truth which the
minister of the Gospel is sent forth to utter. This is the
beginning, the middle, and the end of his teaching."
J.L.
Dagg - One of
the first writing Southern Baptists.
"God
Himself is the author of the Bible. When we read its sacred
pages, we should realize that God speaks to us, and when
we suffer it to lie neglected, we should remember that we
are refusing to listen to God." (Origin and Authority
of the Bible, p. 28)
Basil
Manly Jr. - one of the four original professors
of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the first president
of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board.
"The
doctrine which we hold is commonly styled Plenary Inspiration
or Full Inspiration. It is that the Bible as a whole is
the Word of God, so that in every part of Scripture there
is both infallible truth and Divine authority." (The
Bible Doctrine of Inspiration, pp. 59-60).
Charles
Spurgeon - The Prince of Preachers
"We
who believe the Holy Scripture to be the inspired truth
of God cannot have fellowship with those who deny the authority
from which we derive all our teaching …" (Sword
and Trowel, Nov 1887, p.559)
B.H.
Carroll - Founder of Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
"It
has always been a matter of profound surprise that anybody
should ever question the verbal inspiration of the Bible
of the Bible … When you hear the silly talk that the
Bible ‘contains’ the Word of God and is not the
Word of God you hear a fool’s talk. I don’t care
if he is a Doctor of Divinity, a President of a University
covered with medals from universities of Europe and the
US, it is fool’s talk." (Inspiration
of the Bible, p. 20).
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